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Metrics in fman

To improve your experience, fman collects statistics about the features you
use. No personal data is collected. Not even your IP is stored.

Transparency

In the spirit of full transparency, fman lets you see which data is shared.
To enable this, edit the file Metrics.json in the
Local/ subdirectory of your
data directory. Add the
setting logging_enabled with a value of true. Your
file will then likely look as follows:

{"uuid": "...", "logging_enabled": true}

Start fman and perform some actions. Close fman again. You should now have
a file Metrics.log next to Metrics.json with
entries similar to the following:

Note how there is absolutely no personally identifiable information. The
above merely says that some person started fman.

Letting you see your data holds us accountable and ensures that we are
always acting in your best interest.

Why metrics?

You may wonder why metrics are needed at all. The reason is that they let us
answer important questions like "How many first-time users never actually
run a command?" (meaning that we need to improve fman's onboarding), or
"How long does it take to start fman?" (meaning that we need to improve
startup performance). Sharing your metrics with us lets us optimise for your
usage.

Disabling metrics

You can disable metrics by setting enabled to
false in Metrics.json. The file will then likely
look as follows: